Embark on a journey into the world of vegan entrepreneurship with the SKILLS Podcast. Join us as we explore the thriving SKILLS community, where like-minded individuals come together to connect, learn, and grow their businesses. Each episode brings you handpicked lessons and insights from our community, offering inspiration and practical insights for your entrepreneurial journey. With episode ratings tailored to different business stages, you'll easily find the content that resonates with yo ...
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We live in fast-paced times, and in an ever-changing marketplace business owners must be able to adapt readily. The Pivot podcast, hosted by Stephanie Redcross West, features interviews with successful vegan business owners, keeping you up-to-date on topical issues & how the pros are handling them.
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A journey through a diverse collection of remarkable communities and movements figuring out how to build power, solidarity, and connection in a world beset by disasters — both natural and human-caused. From hurricanes to wildfires to reactionary politics and more, The Response's audio documentaries and interviews highlight some of the most inspiring stories of response and pave a path towards the better world we know is possible.
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Being a vegan business owner can be incredibly exciting, but also scary, overwhelming and lonely. Now there is a podcast you can turn to when you need inspiration! Spark, hosted by Stephanie Redcross West, will provide you with support to help you on your road to success.
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A weekly wrap of the “must-know” developments in Marketing, Media, Agency and Technology for leaders and emerging leaders in the industry. Veteran industry journalist and Mi3 Executive Editor Paul McIntyre talks each week with guest marketers who are in the know on what matters at the nexus of marketing, agencies, media and technology. Powered mostly by Human Intelligence (HI).
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From Client Burnout to the Stage: How Nutritionist Terri Chrisman Found Her Voice
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36:44Terri Chrisman is a nutritionist, podcaster, author, and founder of the Fabulous Health Show podcast and fabuloushealth.net. With a passion for empowering individuals to reclaim their health, she combines cutting-edge science with actionable strategies to prevent chronic disease and inspire lasting lifestyle transformation. As a private nutritionis…
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Beyond the Why: Building a Vegan Business That Actually Sustains You
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38:21You started your vegan business to make a difference, but passion alone isn't enough to keep you going. In this episode of the SKILLS Podcast, Stephanie gets real about what it takes to build a mission-driven business that sustains you financially, emotionally, and energetically for the long haul. Discover why your love for animals and the planet n…
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Co-Ownership Isn't Risky, It's Smart: Amy McKenna on Rethinking How We Live
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40:51Amy McKenna is a managing broker at Windermere Real Estate in Seattle, specializing in helping first-time buyers, Seattle newcomers, and co-buyers navigate residential real estate. She’s also the creator of CoHome, a community platform dedicated to educating people on owning property with others, whether that’s friends, family, or chosen community.…
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Redundancy repercussions: How marketing and media execs Liana Dubois, Katie Dally, Josh Slighting and Amy de Groot navigated the five stages of grief after job loss – then tapped lateral, imaginative thinking ...
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1:02:41Redundancy is rife across the marketing and agency ecosystem right now. And whether you have an inkling your job could be on the line, as Liana Dubois did when management consultants entered the Nine building, or it's a complete shock – such as Josh Slighting experienced when he left a growing REA Group, or Katie Dally felt after surviving a first …
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Mutual Aid 101: Navigating conflict when building power with Dean Spade
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1:21:22On November 20, 2025, we hosted activist, organizer, and writer Dean Spade to lead a Mutual Aid 101 session about navigating conflict. So many of our mutual aid groups and solidarity economy projects are dealing with burnout, conflict, and the pressure of doing real care work with limited capacity. We currently find ourselves in a particularly " ho…
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Marketing Gold: How Australian Redcross Lifeblood used TV to deliver a 120% increase in appointments, and KitKat made Gen Z penetration sales gains by taking ‘Have a Break’ to gamers
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57:41Marketing effectiveness: How we all strive to achieve it. In today’s episode, two very distinctive takes on successful work, from the verticals and business objectives in play, to audience targeting, messaging and channels used – traditional media through to gaming streaming – are in the spotlight. And both landed their brand leaders and agencies c…
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The rise of luxury retail media: Selfridges, Disney combine for unprecedented retail media Xmas campaign – as up-market department stores globally position for next growth wave from non-endemic brands
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44:57British luxury department store Selfridges has just launched a Christmas campaign co-created with Disney across almost the entire Selfridges portfolio of in-store and digital media assets. Now it’s pushing harder into retail media – and looking for similarly deep relationships with select brands aiming to tap its 36 million annual customers. Selfri…
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Sexual health emergency preparedness with Kelley Dennings and Kyliah Hughes
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35:18When floods, fires, freezes, or other extreme weather rip through our communities, the fallout goes far beyond damaged homes and downed power lines. As we've established on The Response Podcast, the climate crisis touches everyone—especially women and gender-diverse people—yet sexual and reproductive health rarely makes the checklist. Stores, pharm…
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Australian vs UK marketers on attention, measurement, reach and cost – and why Australia is pulling ahead on ad effectiveness over efficiency
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45:19Australian brand marketers and their UK counterparts came up with very different views on where they see their biggest challenges, according to a study by QMS that was aligned to research by Ocean Outdoor UK. Marketers from the UK cited attention as their key challenge, while Australian marketers flagged sustainable growth and unified measurement. …
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From Cowgirl Roots to Conscious Fashion: How DESERT BLOOM is Disrupting the Western Boot Industry
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24:00Kristen Decker is the founder of DESERT BLOOM™, a cowgirl boot brand redefining Western fashion with plant-based materials and sustainable practices. What started as a family conversation at a reunion seven years ago became a mission: to create boots that honor cowgirl culture without requiring animal products. Growing up on a small farm, cowgirl b…
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‘Video is rapidly coming down the pipe’: Michael Stephenson’s masterplan for ARN, what’s next, and a massive 12 months ahead
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50:56New ARN CEO, Michael Stephenson, has been unusually quiet for much of the year. After this week’s upfronts, we now know why. Stephenson has been rapidly redesigning ARN from an audio operator to a fully-fledged entertainment company. ARN unveiled a dozen big new content and commercial initiatives on Wednesday, and at the centre of Stephenson’s blue…
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Tool libraries, mutual aid, and community-led disaster response with Rachel Kinbar, Shelby Treichler, and Ben Wyatt
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1:09:03On October 21, 2025 Shareable and the Tool Library Alliance hosted a crossover event of the Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series and Library of Things Co-Lab for "Tool Libraries, Mutual Aid & Community-Led Disaster Response." A panel of practitioners from tool libraries and mutual aid groups discussed the intersection of resource sharing and mutual aid. …
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Atomic 212°, Bupa and Inclusively Made: How to flip the script on disability representation to create inclusive media for all Australians
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49:01Atomic 212°’s Chief Strategy Officer, Asier Carazo and Bupa's GM of Marketing, Naomi Driver once shared a common fear that permeates much of the industry: How does a brand advance the cause for the 20 per cent of Australians with a disability – without being unintentionally tokenistic or offensive? Driver says those concerns often stop her marketin…
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Agencies, holdcos to become media owners, fin services with principal trading, retail media products; media owners merge and consolidate for cost-out, not transformation – Media ecologist Jack Myers calls ...
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57:51By Mi3 & iHeart Podcasts Australia
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Artists against fascism: People power and resistance with Jordan Seaberry
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55:54In this episode of The Response, we hear from Jordan Seaberry, co-director of the US Dept of Arts and Culture (USDAC). In addition to being a working artist and a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, he has built a career as a grassroots organizer and legislative advocate, helping to pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones, incl…
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Dopamine hunters: Why 30 per cent of agency, media set are likely neurodivergent, how mobiles really hurt deep thinking and hot consumer segments overlooked
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1:06:24What happens when you get a neurodivergent, a dopamine dissident and a socio demographic myth buster riding the boundaries of the media and marketing business on the mics together? We’ve done just that after The Media Federation’s (MFA) recent annual conference produced an eclectic mix of keynotes and speakers - the conversation and data should cha…
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From $500 to CEO: How Jane Harris Built The Virgin Hair Fantasy Against the Odds
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32:32Jane Harris is the CEO and founder of The Virgin Hair Fantasy, a luxury glueless wig brand created to empower women through beauty and confidence, especially those navigating hair loss, life transitions, or identity shifts. What began with $500 and a dream has grown into a million-dollar business that serves women across the globe. Jane’s journey i…
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Choosing Ethics Over Profit: An Entrepreneur's Journey to Cruelty-Free Silk
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40:48In this episode, Stephanie speaks with M Sandip Kumar, an Indian entrepreneur who transformed his family’s traditional silk business into a cruelty-free vegan silk brand. Guided by his Jain values of non-violence, Sandip closed all contracts with silk weavers in 2018 and launched a store offering plant-based and artificial silk alternatives, later …
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How Going Vegan Transforms Your Mind and Empowers Your Voice
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32:00In this episode, Stephanie interviews Dr. Angela Crawford, a vegan psychologist about the emotional and psychological side of adopting a vegan lifestyle. Drawing from surveys and interviews detailed in her book The Vegan Transformation, Dr. Crawford shares key themes like values alignment, compassion, and empowerment, while highlighting that advoca…
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Nine’s MMM trial early results: MAFS boosts trust for Westpac, Love Island Australia smashes Cointreau consideration, Kia prepares to move money – but ROI dangers lurk
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58:09Last October Nine corralled a posse of market mix model (MMM) providers, co-funding a program to prove what its assets could do in hard business terms. Since then Nine has poured over three years of historical data from dozens of campaigns, along with brand tracking, consumer attitudinal research, business case studies and other inputs from the lik…
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Seventh Wave Rising: AI to slash SaaS pricing, collapse tech stacks, kill search as we know it - and why marketers should wait before locking in
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36:14Host: Andrew Birmingham - Editor - CX | Martech | Ecom AI is reshaping the rules of business at breakneck speed - and likewise for marketing. Legendary tech sector analyst, founder, CEO and chairman of global analyst firm Forrester, George Colony, calls this the Seventh Wave. It’s an upheaval that will eclipse previous waves like the internet, mobi…
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In this personal and inspiring solo episode, our host opens up about a challenging season marked by illness, personal loss, and professional disruption. With honesty and vulnerability, she shares what it’s been like to navigate through a time of immense struggle — from losing her voice during a critical business moment, to mourning the loss of a lo…
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‘Growing out’ of YouTube: 120,000 long-form TV, movie titles send ad-funded Tubi’s biggest audience – Gen Z and millennials – down retro rabbit holes and ‘vertical fandoms’ - News Australia completes ...
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44:24Just when you thought the bulging TV, BVOD, streaming and video sector had peaked with too many consumer and advertiser choices, along comes the no-subscription, ad-supported international streamer Tubi with 100 million global viewers dominated by a younger set binging TV shows like the 30 year-old Friends and creating new genre “rabbit holes” like…
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YouTube steaming to ad revenues of $50bn, recasts TV to creator economy as UK broadcasters claim ‘reach fail’, top 200 channels dominated by kids - and Peppa Pig
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50:40YouTube last week officially ousted the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster ITV as the video platform now second only to the BBC in audience size, according to the tech and media regulator Ofcom. YouTube’s ad take is pumping everywhere – it raked $9.8bn in the June quarter, according to its latest earnings results – up 13% year-on-year. YouTube has…
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The CMO Awards Podcast Ep8: Building brand for demand: Michael Hill, Reflections Holidays, Allianz CMOs on the business case and foundations for a brand-first marketing strategy
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1:05:36Host: Nadia Cameron - Editor - Marketing | Associate Publisher Brand evolution: It’s in the sights of every marketer, but how do you honour the legacy while seeking a new narrative that grabs attention, signals distinctiveness, and builds loyalty? How do you prove it’s worth investing in brand not just demand internally? What team structures and me…
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‘700% outperformance’: Employment Hero and Salesforce bring B2C playbook to B2B, watch lead costs tumble, growth power – but diverge on in-housing vs agencies amid AI shift
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51:00Employment Hero and Salesforce are at opposite ends of the B2B spectrum. One’s a rapidly scaling $2bn platform, the other a $260bn behemoth. But both have adopted a consumer marketing playbook, applied it to B2B and are watching growth power. Employment Hero’s Tasman Page says the approach is notching 700 per cent gains. Lifting B2C’s distinctive a…
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Top ten global martech analyst Scott Brinker says tech vendor consolidation has begun, agentic AI’s impact deep on marketers to master a complex, multi-agent future
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39:00Host: Andrew Birmingham, Editor - CX | Martech | Ecom Mi3’s tech editor Andrew Birmingham is joined by global Martech doyenne and Chief Martec's editor-in-chief Scott Brinker to dissect the 2025 Martech Landscape, his famed spaghetti-styled industry maps, now at 15,000 different tech solutions, and what it really means for marketers. From the proli…
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Organizing in the Extinction Era with Daisy Carter and Aracely Jimenez-Hudis of Survival Bloc
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42:14The Response is back after a two-month hiatus. For today's show, we resumed our interview format and welcomed two of the seven co-founders of Survival Bloc, Daisy Carter and Aracely Jimenez-Hudis. Survival Bloc is a BIPOC-led network of leaders, movement organizations, and grassroots groups building power and community alternatives to survive the c…
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‘People’s jobs will be changed’: Salesforce global CMO on how AI agents are the new digital labour force rapidly reshaping customer service, marketing and commerce; plus the ‘false precision’ of brand ...
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28:59It’s less than a year since Salesforce launched autonomous AI agents into the wild. But the bots are already reshaping business functions. In the US, online accounting platform 1-800 Accountants, which handles payroll and book keeping for circa 100,000 firms, has slashed the time staff spend on customer service by 70 per cent. Open Table and Singap…
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The CMO Awards Podcast Ep7: Winners and finalists part 2: Uber, Guzman y Gomez CMOs reveal what makes their distinct marketing approaches effective
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1:01:01Their remits and responsibilities seem poles apart, but Guzman y Gomez global CMO, Lara Thom, and Uber CMO APAC, Andy Morley share strikingly similar views on the importance of culture, CMOs aligning personally to company values, brand-led strategy, and bold, progressive marketing that grabs attention and strikes the right cultural chord. It’s surp…
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Super Cannes 25: Suncorp’s Brand, CX boss Mim Haysom on influencers; Why EY Parthenon says risk and creative works for c-suite and Tassal’s Matt Vince is thinking global
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45:47Cannes was heaving with influencers striking deals, but the message from top marketers, academics and consulting firms was consistent: Go back to fundamentals on brand, embed brand at the heart of business, then execute with consistent creative excellence to drive outsized financial returns. Mark Ritson landed that message most emphatically via 10 …
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The CMO Awards Podcast Ep6: Best Growth Initiative of the Year in focus: CMOs of Arnott’s Group, Flintfox share how they unlocked growth opportunities in the very different worlds of B2C and B2C
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57:53This year’s inaugural CMO Awards weren’t just a showcase of Australian marketing leaders doing an excellent job of marketing stewardship and effectiveness. We also introduced the Best Growth Initiative of the Year award, supported by Publicis Groupe, to single out and recognise strategic growth initiatives led by marketing teams. In this podcast ep…
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Blending Sharp and Ritson: Distinctive differentiation and custom media moves needle for CommBank, Subway, NRMA Insurance as News Australia shifts approach.
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42:09Byron Sharp is a distinctive assets maximalist, suggesting how brands look and are recognised and embedded into people’s minds is more important than focusing on what they do differently to rival brands. Mark Ritson argues brands need differentiation to stand out from rivals and pull customers in. News Australia says you need both to drive growth –…
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Omnichannel planning cuts ad fatigue, builds brand, speeds sales: New research shows how; Nunn Media cuts acquisition cost 24%
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30:18Marketing budgets are declining just as paid media costs are rising – meaning brands get less for every dollar spent, and fewer dollars to start with. But latest research commissioned by The Trade Desk into omnichannel versus multichannel media planning could provide sweet relief. In short, the difference between omnichannel and multichannel planni…
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The CMO Awards Podcast Ep5: Winners and finalists part 1: Why sticking it out for the long term is so important to the marketing chiefs at Intrepid, Kennard’s Hire and Patties Foods
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1:03:04While the numbers have been improving, CMOs still have the shortest tenure in the c-suite globally. Spencer Stuart data shows CMOs in Fortune 500 companies now have average tenure of 4.3 years against a c-suite average of 4.9 years. But variance is huge: Tellingly, Forrester data shows a 75% variance in average CMO tenure across the industries it t…
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‘It’s all double duty’: A CMO, a CEO and an agency boss on brand v performance myths, the ‘mother metric’, and expensive mistakes to avoid
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46:11The marketing funnel doesn’t exist, suggests RAA CMO, Michael Healy. He thinks “too many marketers get too ideological about how you have to do brand and then awareness and then conversion”. He has an interesting anecdote about a $329 knife, his wife, and Meta, to support the theory. Healy says “the vast majority of marketers that I talk to – from …
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Kahneman subverted: Behavioural economics weaponised as dark patterns pump ecom, platform profits – prepare for legal change, warns Consumer Policy Research Centre
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30:12Lawmakers around the world are setting their sights on ‘dark patterns’, the way consumer choice is manipulated wholesale by companies for profit – either directly by upselling and herding them into higher yielding decisions, or locking them into services, or “data grabs” that can be monetised indirectly. Australia is next off the rank, and business…
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The CMO Awards Podcast Ep4: Earning the CEO and CFO’s respect: What former marketing chiefs from Jurlique, Aldi, Mercer plus Tourism Australia’s former CFO did to better narrate the commercial value of ...
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47:43Host: Nadia Cameron - Editor - Marketing | Associate Publisher Short CMO tenure, job complexity, unrealistic expectations of delivery – commonly driven by short-term ultimatums – plus a disconnect on the metrics that matter, are all contributing to a dangerously common misalignment between CMOs and their CEOs and CFO. And it’s a recipe for trouble …
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The CMO Awards podcast Ep3: Why we need ‘growth’ in job titles: Former and current marketing leaders from Lion, SiteMinder and McCain on how they’ve oriented teams and culture to drive new growth and brand ...
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52:27Host: Nadia Cameron - Editor - Marketing | Associate Publisher At its core, the job of the CMO is to deliver business growth. And if Mi3’s story on marketing jobs recently and what company CEOs want in their marketing hires in 2025 is anything to go by, there is a recalibration back to topline growth rather than just pure cost cutting and efficienc…
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Mutual Aid in Action with Sanae Lahgazi Alaoui, Alexa Baiano, Rain, Valinda Chan, Laurie Bertram Roberts, and Vicky Osterweil
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38:07We're back with the fifth installment in our Mutual Aid 101 mini-series. This episode is going to be a little different from what we've shared before. Rather than extended presentations, you'll hear six 5-10 minute "Rad Talks" covering examples of mutual aid in action. We welcomed Sanae Lahgazi Alaoui from Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid Fund; Alexa Baian…
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The CMO Awards podcast Ep2: Tourism Australia, Google and ABC marketing chiefs on how they have won friends and influenced people – from CEO and exec stakeholders to staff
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51:31Host: Nadia Cameron - Editor - Marketing | Associate Publisher Being able to convince others is the most critical skill marketers need to possess – the whole job of marketing is to influence consumers to consider then purchase your brand, after all. But as marketers progress into senior management positions, they also need to get better at getting …
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Short-term ‘trap’: Oxford Uni professor warns on TV industry plan to build outcomes model – but still thinks they should build it; says agencies hold key to advertising beyond reach, and can lift his code ...
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49:23Oxford University Associate Professor Felipe Thomaz was a runaway Mi3 hit last year with a peer-reviewed paper that smashes the economics and relevance of audience reach. His analysis – based on 1,000 campaigns and a million customer journeys via Kantar and Wavemaker data – finds blunt use of reach will not deliver business outcomes, because not al…
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Suncorp, OMD and Foxtel talk TV, streaming and sport sponsorships and where media measurement, outcomes need to go next
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33:00It was the sudden declines in footy audiences that did it for Suncorp Executive Manager of Media, Greg Kearney and OMD Chief Media Partnerships Officer, Marelle Salib. They knew that diehard sports fans don’t just ditch their teams overnight. But Kearney and Salib had years’ worth of market mix model (MMM) data that countered the volatile numbers c…
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Surveillance, cybersecurity, and financial tech for mutual aid with Elijah Baucom and Sarah Philips
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37:17Today, we're sharing excerpts from Shareable's Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series' third session. Elijah Baucom of Everyday Security & UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic discusses security for mutual aid groups before Sarah Philips of Fight for the Future shares the current state of mutual aid financial surveillance and privacy tech. The third speaker fr…
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